News archive from 18 August 2013

David Willey took centre stage as Northamptonshire completed their unlikely climb from laughing stock to title winners with a thumping 102-run win over Surrey in tonight's rain-affected Friends Life t20 final at Edgbaston.
Man of the match Willey...

Portsmouth recorded their first win since being relegated to League Two against 10-man Morecambe.
Jed Wallace opened the scoring in the 20th minute, David Connolly made it two six minutes later and, after Andy Wright had been sent off, Patrick...

Leyton Orient and Peterborough remain locked together at the top of the Sky Bet League One table after both made it three wins from three games.
Britt Assombalonga was the star again for Posh, the 20-year-old scoring for the third consecutive game in...

Top Boy actors Giacomo Mancini, left, and Malcolm Kamulete. Photograph by Katherine Rose for the Observer Researching the book that went on to inspire The Wire, David Simon famously spent a year on the ground with Baltimore Police's homicide unit....

With flowing chestnut hair and wide blue-violet eyes, she gazes unflinchingly from posters and magazines - alongside the simple, arresting statement: "I was terrified, all I heard was cancer, but thanks to Teenage Cancer Trust I knew I was going...

Injections of the lethal food poisoning bacteria botulinum toxin, commonly called by its brand name Botox, are nowadays best known as an anti-ageing treatment.
The muscle-freezing effects that eliminate facial movements - and therefore wrinkles -...

The cold spring may be a distant memory but this year's sluggish start could soon, quite literally, bear fruit. Our topsy-turvy weather means a flourishing crop of wild berries this autumn.
Although fruiting is expected later than usual, it will yield...

Men may be able to protect their fertility from the effects of ageing by simple tweaks to their diet.
Those with a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, fish and nuts showed fewer signs of damage to the DNA of their sperm in a study than those who avoided...

With flowing chestnut hair and wide blue-violet eyes, she gazes unflinchingly from posters and magazines - alongside the simple, arresting statement: "I was terrified, all I heard was cancer, but thanks to Teenage Cancer Trust I knew I was going...

Injections of the lethal food poisoning bacteria botulinum toxin, commonly called by its brand name Botox, are nowadays best known as an anti-ageing treatment.
The muscle-freezing effects that eliminate facial movements - and therefore wrinkles -...

The cold spring may be a distant memory but this year's sluggish start could soon, quite literally, bear fruit. Our topsy-turvy weather means a flourishing crop of wild berries this autumn.
Although fruiting is expected later than usual, it will yield...

Men may be able to protect their fertility from the effects of ageing by simple tweaks to their diet.
Those with a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, fish and nuts showed fewer signs of damage to the DNA of their sperm in a study than those who avoided...

Spanish police have cast doubt on claims by two women from the UK arrested in Peru for cocaine smuggling that they were forced to carry the drugs by armed gang members.
Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly said they were forced at gunpoint to...

Ramirez had not long been the leader of the Gulf Cartel, whose former boss Mario Cardenas, alias "Fatso", was caught in September.
The Gulf Cartel's power has waned in recent years in a feud with Mexico's most brutal gang, the Zetas, which...

Figures show the number of NHS midwives is below the ideal ratio of one midwife per 28 live births. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The NHS's chronic shortage of midwives will last into the mid-2020s, despite ministerial pledges to...